I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Absorb ideas from every source.

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.